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Rancho La Ballona was a Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California confirmed by governor Juan Alvarado in 1839 to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes. The Machados and Talamantes had already been given a Spanish concession to graze their cattle on this land in 1819. ==History== The grant stretched inland from the ocean into what is now Mar Vista, Westside Village, Palms, and Culver City and north to Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, and south to Playa Del Rey.〔(diseno Rancho La Ballona )〕〔(1900 USGS topographic map )〕〔(Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County )〕 Augustin Machado and Felipe Talamantes were given a land permit in 1819 for Rancho de Los Quintos in Santa Barbara, but it turned out not to be profitable. In 1821 they applied again, joined by Augustin's brother Ygnacio, and Felipe's son Tomas. The military commander, José de la Guerra y Noriega, gave them permission to graze cattle on Rancho La Ballona, while living in the Pueblo de Los Angeles.〔''Ingersoll's Century History, Santa Monica Bay Cities'', p.137 - 139〕 In 1839 Mexican Governor Alvarado confirmed the land grant to them. The cession of California to the United States followed the Mexican-American War, and the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo promised that the existingland grants would be honored. In accordance with the Land Act of 1851, the Machados and Talamantes registered their claim for Rancho La Ballona with the Board of California Land Commissioners, and it was approved in 1854.〔(United States. District Court (California : Southern District)Land Case 123 SD )〕 The US District Court upheld the decision on appeal in 1873, 8 years after Agustín Machado had died, and Rancho La Ballona was patented at to the original four claimants.〔( Report of the Surveyor General 1844 - 1886 )〕 In 1857, Benjamin D. Wilson received title to one fourth of Rancho La Ballona on a foreclosure of a loan he had made to Tomas Talamantes in 1854. Wilson sold his portion of Rancho La Ballona to George A. Sanford and John D. Young, who in 1863 had petitioned for a division of the land. A decree dividing it into 23 section was issued in 1868. Each of the 23 was to have three types of land: "pasture", "irrigable"; and "bay". (The bay is cnow known as Port Ballona.) 〔( Rancho La Ballona Map )〕 The largest allotment was to the "Estate of Augustin Machado" and by a later partition in 1875, this allotment was re-divided among the heirs of Augustin.〔Mary Sainte Therese Wittenburg, 1973, ''The Machados & Rancho La Ballona: The story of the land and its ranchero, Jose Agustin Antonio Machado, with a genealogy of the Machado family'', Dawson's Book Shop ISBN 978-0-87093-164-2 〕〔Robinson, W. W. (William Wilcox), 1939, ''Culver City : a calendar of events in which is included, also, the story of Palms and Playa Del Rey together with Rancho la Ballona and Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes'', Title Guarantee and Trust Co, Los Angeles.〕〔(Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims ) by Karen Clay and Werner Troesken〕 During the Civil War General George Wright ordered troops to secure Port Ballona against a possible seizure by pro-Confederates, by 1862 6,000 Union troops were stationed Port Ballona. Their post was named Camp Latham, after Milton Latham. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rancho La Ballona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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